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Publication details [#57782]

Tagg, Caroline. 2013. Scraping the Barrel with a Shower of Social Misfits: Everyday Creativity in Text Messaging. Applied Linguistics 34 (4) : 480–500.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creativity | ict-technology | literacy | spelling | text analysis

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study demonstrates how creative text messaging practices emerge from a special design of technology- and user-related characteristics to play an important evaluative role in texting, and to offer consistency across texts.